Henry Wood

Sir Henry Joseph Wood ( born March 3, 1869 in London, † August 19, 1944 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire ) was a British conductor.

Wood was a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he became professor in 1923. In 1895 he founded the well-known concert series Promenade Concerts, shortly Proms, which is traditionally associated with the Albert Hall in London, but originally was held at the Queen's Hall. He served as principal conductor of the concerts, and there will be a year today remembers him by his bust is crowned at the Last Night of the Proms with laurel.

Wood also composed and arranged music, sometimes under the pseudonym Paul Klenovsky. In 1911 he received a knighthood for his services to music, 1921, the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society.

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